YOU CAN HAVE MY BLT WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, BACON-SCENTED FINGERS. Why It’s Hilariously Hypocritical For Food And Wine To Lecture About The BLT’s Carbon Footprint: “That’s somewhat rich coming from a magazine, a publication that no doubt produces its own rather large carbon footprint, made even more awkward by the fact that this product is made of dead trees. Perhaps Food and Wine can ask Adam Cole to do a video on the carbon footprint of producing a monthly magazine.”
Archive for 2017
June 28, 2017
It gets worse:
Chris Gard, 32, and Connie Yates, 31, wanted to take their 10-month-old son – who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage – to the US to undergo a therapy trial.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, where Charlie is being cared for, said they wanted him to be able to ‘die with dignity’.
But the couple, from Bedfont, west London, raised almost £1.4million so they could take their son to America but a series of courts ruled in favour of the British doctors.
It comes after specialists at Great Ormond Street said therapy in the US is experimental and will not help and added that life support should stop.
And after losing legal battles in the UK, Charlie’s parents were hoping judges in Strasbourg, France, would come to their aid.
But on Tuesday afternoon, the ECHR rejected a last-ditch plea and their ‘final’ decision means the baby’s life support machine will be switched off.
The ECHR announced the application to the court by the parents was ‘inadmissible’ and added that their decision was ‘final’.
The single payer calls the shots.
I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Works as Well as a Shot.
DON’T EVER CHANGE, CNN:
● CNN Reporter Thinks Trump Is Endangering Media, Compares to ‘War Zone.’
—NewsBusters, today.
● The head of CNN’s news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet firestorm last week when he told a panel at a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that the American military had targeted journalists during operations in Iraq.
—The New York Sun, February 8, 2005.
AND COUNTING: 17 VA Scandals Before Trump’s Reform Bill.
THEY CHOSE…POORLY: D’OH! Starbucks staff’s mockery of customer’s Trump t-shirt backfired BIG TIME.
I’m so old, I can remember when Starbucks’ CEO wanted to use his barristas as a vehicle to spread greater tolerance.
VAN JONES ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Trump/Russia Story is a “Nothingburger.”
ANNALS OF FAKE NEWS: Vice Retracts Articles About Donald Trump’s Animatronic Robot at Disney World.
AT AMAZON, 70% off or More Polarized Sunglasses.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Exercise Has a Cascade of Positive Effects, Study Finds.
Exercise has been shown to protect against diabetes, stroke and several other diseases and to improve our moods.
But does it also make us more likely to engage in other activities? Do people who exercise tend to have better social lives or achieve more of their goals?
The answer appears to be yes, according to a study that has been accepted for publication in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. Exercise not only makes us feel more positive, the study found, but it also increases the likelihood that we’ll do more positive things.
That supports the use of exercise to help treat people with depression, anxiety and other illnesses. It also suggests exercise could help healthy people improve their everyday lives.
I think that’s right.
HMM: Antitrust Worries? Amazon Hires Former Justice Department Experts For Whole Foods Deal.
Before the Whole Foods deal, I could count on the fingers of one hand how many times I’d heard “Amazon” and “antitrust” in the same sentence. In the last week or so, I’ve lost count.
OF COURSE, THEY COULD BE DEPRESSED BECAUSE THEY’RE IN CHRONIC PAIN: 51 percent of opioid prescriptions go to people with depression and mood disorders.
FAKE NEWS: CNN uses Elmo as source against Trump immigration action.
Maybe this week will be remembered as time when the wheels finally came off the media’s clown car.
AT AMAZON, Summer Deals on Men’s Shoes.
MICHELLE MALKIN: The brutal battle against medical kidnappers.
On the day Boston Children’s Hospital celebrated being named “the number one pediatric hospital in the nation” by U.S. News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby Somerville, Massachusetts. Dana is the young wife of Martin “Marty G” Gottesfeld, an imprisoned technology engineer/activist who used his skills to fight against medical child abuse committed at Boston’s Children’s Hospital.
“That is so Boston,” Dana observed Tuesday in response to the new ranking — which is already splashed in multiple gold medallions across the hospital’s website.
It’s all about power, prestige and pull in the top echelons of the Bay State’s medical community, many New Englanders have informed me. BCH’s teaching affiliate is Harvard Medical School. The ties between and among influential and wealthy alumni in the realms of health care, politics and the courts are innumerable.
It’s a network that’s “practically untouchable,” Dana explained.
And like the third rail, those who dare challenge these renowned institutions risk great danger to their freedom and their lives.
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Emory University petitions to be annexed into the City of Atlanta.
Jury Awards Man $833,000 In Tea Party Libel Suit.
A jury in Georgia awarded James Lyle a total of $833,000 Monday in his libel lawsuit against Lee Martin and the Tea Party Patriots.
The long-standing case came to end in Cherokee County, Ga., when the jury found the Tea Party Patriots and Martin defamed Lyle, who is the partner of Amy Kremer, the former chairman of Tea Party Express.
The case began in 2011 after allegations surfaced that Martin made defamatory Facebook posts about Lyle under the pseudonym “Dale Butterworth,” stating essentially that Lyle molested the child of Amy Kremer, his girlfriend.
That molestation, it turns out, never took place. But what did take place before the accusations aired publicly on Facebook was intense interpersonal drama in the Tea Party Patriots, an organization that was initially founded by four individuals, among them Martin’s wife Jenny Beth Martin and Kremer.
In 2009, Kremer left the Tea Party Patriots and decided to align herself with a rival group called the Tea Party Express. Following the separation of Kremer from the Tea Party Patriots, Martin aka “Dale Butterworth” made a post alleging Lyle molested Kremer’s daughter.
Sad, what became of so much of the Tea Party.
THAT SEEMS SUBOPTIMAL: Sunscreen chemical breaks down into toxic compounds when exposed to sun and water.
ABOUT TIME: Congress considering legislation that would open up supersonic flight.
The Lee-Gardner Amendment would help us reduce drag by allowing us to make our engines narrower. Current engine noise rules for new supersonic aircraft are more stringent than those for the existing subsonic fleet. By setting our engine noise to the same levels as existing subsonic airplanes, we could make our engines produce so much less drag that we would save 20–40 percent on fuel, depending on whether you use this year’s or next year’s rules as a baseline.
The fuel reduction also supports longer routes. A 20 percent reduction in fuel burn per mile means correspondingly longer trips are possible. A supersonic flight from New York to São Paulo could be made without stopping to refuel. This would be a significant step forward for connecting the world.
Additionally, the Lee-Gardner Amendment would require the FAA to eliminate the Mach 1 speed limit over the United States and replace it with a well tailored sonic boom standard. This change could mean flights between New York and LA in 2.5 hours, for example. DC to San Francisco would be only 2 hours and 24 minutes at Mach 2.2.
I’m for it. Air travel time hasn’t changed significantly since I was born. It’s time for a major improvement.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Mental Health Problems Rising Among College Students, says NBC News of all places: “College counselors are seeing a record number of students like Ebeling, who are dealing with a variety of mental health problems, from depression and anxiety, to more serious psychiatric disorders.”
“Seeing?” You spelled causing wrong.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS KEVIN DRUM GETS HOUNDED OUT OF MOTHER JONES FOR THIS? Somebody Needs to Defend John McEnroe. Why Not Me?
McEnroe is getting slagged for insulting Serena Williams by saying she’d rank #700 on the men’s circuit. Also for the sin of thinking that female athletes have to be compared to men. And for being an idiot. Etc.
This is ridiculous. McEnroe can run his mouth with the best of them, but in this case he’s completely innocent. Just read the interview:
McEnroe says Serena William is the best female tennis player in history, full stop. This is something he’s said many times before.
The interviewer then sloppily changes the subject to whether Williams is the best player in the world. Not the best woman in history, but the best in the world right now among all tennis players. This is laughably ignorant.
McEnroe is obviously taken aback, but then answers accurately: If we’re talking about the quality of all tennis players on the planet right now, Williams isn’t even close. This is completely noncontroversial, and it’s something Williams herself has said herself.McEnroe didn’t bring this up out of nowhere. He wasn’t trying to say anything about Serena Williams or women’s tennis in general. He wasn’t trying to generate controversy. He was responding to a dumb question from an interviewer. I suppose he could have told the interviewer he didn’t understand what she was saying, and then asked for a clarification, but instead he just answered and moved on—or would have, anyway, except that the interviewer just wouldn’t let it go.
Since then, half the sports writers in America have proved they have too much free time on their hands by going after McEnroe.
Well, at least half the sports writers in America now are Pajama Boy types who are leftist shibboleth-repeaters first, sports journalists second. Or fifth.